John Lennon Was A Weed DREAMer

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, History, Comedy

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In 1971, John Lennon performed publicly, for the first time in five years, at a rally decrying the injustice of Michigan police targeting a radical political activist for an elaborate undercover sting operation, resulting in a sentence of ten years in prison for passing two joints. The concert brought massive media attention, and John Sinclair soon after walked out of prison a free man, landing John Lennon on Richard Nixon's official enemies list. For the next three years, the President's "plumbers" harassed the former Beatle and his wife Yoko Ono, while the INS threatened him with deportation over an old hashish bust back in England. Meanwhile the FBI tapped his phones and sent agents to tail his every move Lennon, Ono, and their legal team fought them every step, and along the way created a new legal precedent in immigration law that still stands as today's DREAM act. (At the time of this podcast, the Supreme Court had yet to rule on a case brought by the Trump administration challenging DACA and the DREAM Act). Read John Lennon vs. The USA (written by Lennon's immigration attorney Leon Wildes) for more info, and watch the documentary The U.S. vs John Lennon Also learn more about Dr. Lester Grinspoon (whose expert witness on the difference between "marijuana" and "hashish" helped save the day) in our episode about Carl Sagan. Long live Nutopia! PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video shows and seshes, plus access to cool rewards like a signed book or signature lighter. And it truly helps us make the best show possible.

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0:00.0	This podcast is for adults 21 years of age or older. We talk about cannabis history and
0:06.5	advertise cannabis products. If you're not 21, come back when you are.
0:13.6	Spoke Media.
0:16.4	Hey, how's it going, folks? It's Abdullah and Bean. And welcome back for yet another episode of
0:22.5	great moments in weed history. On this podcast, my partner Bean and I, who are both cannabis,
0:28.2	journalists and media makers, go over some of the more fascinating points and the very, very long
0:33.6	history of human beings and cannabis. Isn't that right, Bean? That is precisely what we do.
0:38.5	I do not know the story we're about to hear today. Bean has researched and written it and he's
0:42.9	going to be telling it to me and telling it to you fresh. We've got some weed rolled up.
0:47.5	We've got some Tweedle farms joints. I've got this iced tea here. I'm super excited. Bean,
0:53.4	what do you got for us today? Today I've got a story about here. I'm super excited. Bean, what do you got for us today?
0:54.7	Today I've got a story about one of the best known people to ever live on planet Earth.
1:00.5	Whoa.
1:01.3	Somebody who is very, very well known for his love of cannabis.
1:06.0	Hmm.
1:06.6	But I think has a weed story.
1:09.5	Well, certainly that a lot of people don't know, and we'll find
1:12.3	out what you do or don't know about it as we go. Whoa, okay, one of the most famous people on
1:18.0	earth. We've covered some pretty famous people on this show. We've covered Barack Obama. We've
1:22.6	covered Bob Dylan, Louis Armstrong, pretty famous people, but it sounds like this one really, really takes
1:28.7	the cake. I'm not going to make any guesses yet, but I'm ready to rock. I've got some joints
1:34.0	rolled up here for us. And if you're at home, you're not quite that caught up. You're looking
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